Jane and Prudence

Resumen del libro

'The setting of this very funny novel, one of Barbara Pym's earliest, is an English village where Jane's husband is the newly appointed vicar, and where Prudence will pay Jane a visit and find herself courted by a fatuous young widower. Prudence, at twenty-nine, has achieved nothing in life but a dull research job in London and a string of dud affairs; Jane, now in her forties, was Prudence's tutor at Oxford.

Jane cheerfully concedes that she is an incompetent housewife, but she hopes that the move to a rural parish may transform her into a Trollopean vicar's wife, as well as a crafty matchmaker. There are many comic complications here, as Jane learns that matchmaking has as many pitfalls as does housewifery' The New Yorker

Biografía del autor

Barbara Pym (1913-1980) nació en Oswestry, Shropshire. Junto con Elizabeth Taylor está considerada una de las escritoras inglesas más importantes de la segunda mitad del siglo xx. A lo largo de su vida escribió varias novelas, entre las que destacamos Mujeres excelentes (1952), Jane y Prudence (1953), Less than Angels (1955), Los hombres de Wilmet (1958), No Fond Return of Love (1961), Murió la dulce paloma (1978) y A Few Green Leaves (1980). Tras su muerte, en 1980, se publicó su diario, A Very Private Eye (1985).